Fever and Ague ['Egg-yoo']
Even our diseases and their treatment have greatly changed.
Fever and ague prevailed all over the State, except, perhaps, in the mountains.
The ague commonly came on in the fore noon, causing the patient to chatter with
cold "in spite of his teeth," and, lasting about an hour, was
followed by a high fever and perspiration, passing off in sleep. It returned
near the same hour on the first, second or third day, and often continued for
months. For it the doctors gave calomel and jalap, (often producing
salivation,) glauber salts, castor oil, Peruvian bark and tartar emetic, with
copious draughts of warm water to induce vomiting. All these I have taken again
and again. Cold water was absolutely forbidden, even when the sufferer was
almost dying of thirst. In addition, the lancet was used freely, and I have
seen bleeding afford as sudden and complete relief in high fever as ever was
produced on the nerves by hypodermic injection, yet it is now hardly ever
resorted to.
Gigs and Sulkies
Instead of buggies, we drove gigs and sulkies — the seats
perched high up on two wheels, with shafts held up by tugs. These — the shafts
or the tugs — were continually breaking and throwing the riders under their
horses' heels.
Algernon Sidney Johnston (October 17, 1801-September 22, 1852)
Pages 103-104: . . . I picked up in a book store a treatise on stenography, and, in the leisure of a village store, practiced short-hand writing merely for amusement ; but the consequence was, that A. S. (Sid) Johnston, then State Printer, employed me to report the proceedings of the Legislature. And whilst thus engaged, a vacancy for Teller in the Commercial Bank had to be filled, to which I was elected on the recommendations of Judge Gantt, Judge O'Neale, Judge Glover, who was at that time Clerk of the House, and others whose acquaintance I had made in the offices of Clerk of the Court and Reporter. Again, in the same way, I learnt bookkeeping, with no expectation of ever using that knowledge except in my regular business; and now, after a lapse of more than fifty years, it gives me employment and remuneration for many an hour that would otherwise be spent idly and unprofitably.
Page 150: THE ELECTION OF 1840. This was more excited and exciting than any other that had occurred in Richland. . . [details in the following pages].
Page 153 [Whigs v. Democrats. Sid Johnston was with the Whigs]:
But the Legislature was largely Democratic, and they brought A. H. Pemberton from Augusta to edit a paper in support of their views, giving the new organ the public printing, to the exclusion of A. S. Johnston, former State Printer, who adhered to the fortunes of his friend and relative, Colonel Preston [William Campbell Preston, 1794-1860].
The ensuing controversy between the two editors soon led to personalities, followed by a collision, in which Johnston struck Pemberton with a switch or stick in Main street, and the latter, after blustering loudly, with Bill Myers at his back, let the insult pass. Myers was the man who did not fight a duel with Captain Tradewell.
During his [presumably Algernon Sidney Johnston's] administration as Intendant, the rock drains, which have been so serviceable in carrying off the water from our streets, were commenced and met with great opposition from many citizens, but he persisted in having them built.
Samuel Weir, a fearless, independent and bitter partisan, also edited a Whig paper and applied very filthy and abusive language to Pemberton.
[Note: See McCord, David J., ed. The Statutes at Large of South Carolina. Vol. 6 (1814-1838). Columbia, S.C.: Printed by A.S. Johnston, 1839; vs. Acts and Resolutions of the General Assembly of the State of South Carolina, Passed in December, 1839. Columbia, S.C.: A.H. Pemberton, State Printer, 1839. Johnston and Pemberton continued to battle for official state printing contracts into the 1840s.].
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